Robotic Liberation by PWP (VIC-20) on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2010–2015.
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Robotic Liberation by PWP is a music video demo performed entirely by an unexpanded Commodore VIC-20 and a 1541 disk drive, using only a few kilobytes of RAM and a 16 KB disk. It uses demoscene effects to tell a story.
HN recommends it as a showcase of what skilled demoscene programmers can squeeze out of extremely limited hardware.
“I like that the demo effects are used here to tell a story in addition to being a pure display of coding prowess.”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
The video was posted by an awesome demoscene dude named viznut. Check out the rest of his channel. Experimental music from very short C programs: [link] Robotic Liberation (VIC-20 demo): ▶ this video
in “Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]” · View on HN
Videos of some of the demos described here: Robotic Warrior [link] Robotic Liberation ▶ this video Impossiblator [link] I like that the demo effects are used here to tell a story in addition to being a pure display of coding prowess.
in “Incredible demos on the Commodore Vic-20” · View on HN
NOBODY expects the robotic liberation! [1] [1] ▶ this video (I am aware this will rightfully get modded down but sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do)
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